According to Consequence.net, artist Hayley Williams is the first artist to be announced for this year’s edition of Newport Folk Festival. The artist will perform Friday set dubbed “Hayley Williams & Friends,” which fans can only presume will be a headlining performance. The July 24 date will mark Williams’ return to Newport after she made a surprise appearance during Jack Antonoff’s headlining set last year.
William’s performance follows the completion of her spring/summer tour dates and that run comes in support of one of last year’s best albums, Ego Death at Bachelorette Party, as well as the singer’s newly announced indie-grunge project Power Snatch.
Tickets for the year’s Newport Folk Festival has sold out almost instantly but people can join the waitlist for the event’s fan-to-fan ticket exchange through the NFF website. To help spread the news about Williams’s appearance at the event, the festival went on Instagram to say: “We are beyond excited to announce that Hayley Williams & Friends will be heading to the Fort this summer.”
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